{"id":341,"date":"2012-05-20T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2012-05-20T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T18:10:21","slug":"a-difficult-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/a-difficult-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Difficult Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had plans yesterday (Saturday) to go see some friends at a house warming party, but this new chemotherapy drug I started on Thursday, kicked in, and that was the end of that story. It will be better to see these people when I am well. It will just have to be one of those events to look forward to later when I am able. It is good to have some things to look forward to, something beyond this season.<\/p>\n<p>The paperwork said that some of the side effects of the Taxol occur in greater than 30% of patients taking this drug. Well, I was in that percentile and the side effect that hit me is the arthralgia (joint pain), and myalgia (muscle pain). It pretty much affected my whole body, so walking and moving and just <em>being<\/em> is painful. It did say that it resolves with a few days, so that is a comfort. This too will pass, but it is not comfortable to go through. It prevented me from going to church, and I will miss seeing all my wonderful friends, but my body is dictating that I rest today. Just knowing that they are praying for me makes me feel blessed.<\/p>\n<p>I was discouraged yesterday with my poor results on my ultrasound, but perhaps this newer drug will be the ticket. I will pray for a miracle too. I would be most delighted with that. It is in God&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had plans yesterday (Saturday) to go see some friends at a house warming party, but this new chemotherapy drug I started on Thursday, kicked in, and that was the end of that story. It will be better to see &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/a-difficult-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bizidi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}